As we’ve been reporting, the Tezos Foundation is hard at work building up the Tezos community in terms of technical development as well as local meetup and networking organizations to foster growth around the globe. The latest recipient of support from the Foundation is developer-extraordinaire Stephen Andrews, a community legend…
Clause Developing Smart Legal Contract Layer on Tezos
The true future of smart contracts on blockchain platforms has yet to be fully realized and remains in very early stages. There have been some developments to push the technology into the mainstream, but few critical applications have been able to use smart contracts to reliably manage business transactions and…
Tezos Foundation Continues Community Investment
As the month of August comes to a close, with the Tezos Mainnet launch approaching, the Tezos Foundation has continued building up the Tezos ecosystem with the ongoing announcement of more grants. The latest announcement, dated August 27, involves the Foundation’s effort to build out software tools and web resources…
Tezos News Recap (July 23)
There was a lot of news in the Tezos universe last week and due to travel limitations I was not able to cover any of it. However, there are so many great things happening I didn’t want them to slip under the radar without a mention. Tezori Wallet (Galleon) Tezori,…
Tezos Successfully Launches Betanet
Originally announced by the Tezos foundation in early April, the Tezos Betanet has successfully launched as of June 30. The self-imposed second quarter deadline came down to the wire just a day shy of a full year since the original ICO fundraiser in July of 2017. The Betanet is, for…
Tezos Foundation Will Relinquish First-Year Veto Power
The Tezos Foundation has announced it will relinquish previously held “veto power” over the Tezos network which was to be retained by the foundation for a period of one year following launch. The original goal of holding the veto power over protocol changes and proposals was to ensure that the…
HackerOne To Manage Tezos Bug Bounty Program
In a press release on Friday, the Tezos Foundation announced it will be sponsoring a bug bounty program with the cybersecurity firm known as HackerOne. The goal of the program is to provide ongoing penetration testing and improvement to the Tezos protocol, and codebase, by soliciting incentivized community involvement in…
Tezos Foundation Announces KYC/AML Requirement For Token Activation
The Tezos Foundation announced today that activation of Tezos tokens from the fundraiser sale in 2017 will be contingent upon each contributor completing “Know Your Customer / Anti-Money Laundering” identity verification. This requirement will only apply to contributors who sent funds directly to the project using Bitcoin or Ethereum. Contributors…